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Dark Secrets (Dark #2)

Publisher: Ellora’s Cave

ISBN: 9781419991370

Genre: Erotic Paranormal Romance

Theme: Vampire/Demon (a few shape
shifters thrown in there…)

Length: 85,000 words

Blurb

The worst moment of Micah’s life was when Ella nearly died
in his arms. Her miraculous recovery should have been the start of their
future. Unfortunately, a new demonic heritage, the Shadow Agency’s corruption
and Julian, the vampire who turned Ella, are testing their relationship.
Despite hotter-than-ever sex and a variety of new places and positions to
explore, Micah begins to wonder if a relationship based on lust can survive for
more than a few scorching-hot months.

Ella has forgiven, but not forgotten, the fact that Micah
once plunged a dagger through her heart. Everything with Micah is passion,
excitement and an uncontrollable desire to explore his body in a variety of
very satisfying ways. But as buried secrets, ongoing lies and murderous
deceptions pile up, Ella is reminded that she and Micah’s relationship was
based on a curse. In order to forge a future together, Ella and Micah will have
to face down their personal demons—and prove that love and trust are more than
just words.

I turned my head, searching for the spot where I’d stood
before being tackled. In place of the wall, there was now a gigantic hole. I
squinted, turning my face away from the last rays of golden sunshine dropping
behind the sea of snow-kissed evergreens surrounding the secluded house.

Thirty minutes earlier and the sun would have fried my
retinas. I waved away the remaining smoke and sought out Micah. He stood
speechless in front of me, his blue-green eyes wide, sensual mouth open. Under
the pungent scent of sulfur mixed with singed hair and fur, I picked up the
faint muskiness of demon blood.

Dark-red lines dripped in a horizontal gash on Micah’s
cheek, caused most likely from the flying debris, but he didn’t seem to notice.
Dirt smudged his bare chest, and pieces of wood tangled in his shaggy golden
hair. The shadow inside me—my feral inner vampire—just as much a part of me as
my fangs and beating heart, preened at the sight of sweaty, dirty, alpha male.

Lethal. Deadly. Demon.

Mine.

Micah wore nothing except athletic shorts slung low on his
hips, his normal attire when we trained together—something we hadn’t been doing
much of lately. The stark, crimson lines of our mating tattoos traced his hip,
curved down, over defined muscles and disappeared beneath the band of his
shorts. Water dripped from his hair, plastering the dark strands in clumps to
his forehead and nape. Each breath flexed an impressive show of muscle in his
chest and abs. Good to know his assassination attempt hadn’t damaged my
hormones.

I moved my gaze from the trail of hair down his stomach to
the hand he held fisted at his side. The flesh smoldered. I looked from his
smoking fist to the hole where the wall used to be.

I turned back to Micah, used a thumb to gesture behind me.
“If this is about leaving the toilet seat up, I’ll stop bitching about it.”

Haven’t
read the Dark series yet? Start with Dark Cravings (over 50 five star reviews
on Amazon), it’s the first full length novel in the series…

Dark
Cravings Blurb

Ella Grey's life sucks. A
half-breed vampire, she does her best to pass the time killing demons and
secretly admiring her Shadow Hunter partner, Micah. He's hot, dangerous and
knows it. He'd be just Ella's type if he weren't likely to kill her the moment
she put a toe out of line.

A chance encounter with a
succubus changes everything. From the second the succubus' spell washes over
them, Ella and Micah are helpless to keep their hands off one another. The sex,
when it's not leaving them on the verge of death, is earth shattering and for
the first time in ages Ella is connected with someone on a level she'd feared
lost forever. But a dangerous prophecy has been set into motion, and if Ella's
not careful it'll pull her straight from Micah's arms and into the deepest
bowels of the underworld.

A Romantica® Paranormal erotic romance from Ellora’s
Cave

Publisher’s Note: This book was
previously published under the title Blood Lust Rising. It has been revised and
expanded for EC.

Madeline Pryce wrote her first novel
when she was ten, penned with neon-pink ink in a loose-leaf binder. Captivated
by romantic literature, yet intrigued by the paranormal, she continues to
develop her own voice, writing the kinds of stories that inspired her as a teen.